See: "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-13-003-26-NW-HE-SV";
"Consolidation of Intel-based servers is a well-established strategy for
reducing
the running costs and management of enterprise IT systems. But if IBM has
its way, more
and more organizations will begin to explore the potential benefits of
consolidating
servers on the mainframe.
"Many enterprises continue to have mainframe systems at the heart of the
IT function,
running established mission-critical applications. And much of the needed
server consolidation
can best be applied to the growing army of Intel-based systems that sit
around them. These
systems run a variety of applications, from routine file and print services
to the more complex
applications and Web-based services needed for increasingly important
e-business front-ends.
"Many of these applications can run under the Linux operating system as
well as under
Microsoft's Windows. Indeed, for some applications Linux is arguably the
better option. This
opens up an opportunity for IBM, the dominant mainframe supplier, to exploit
the capability
of its zSeries machines to run Linux as a native operating system, as well
as to run partitions
in which multiple virtual Linux servers can be mixed with existing mainframe
applications on
the same machine..."
